PREACHING No.5
MATTHEW 25: 6 (1)
(Preached on Sunday December 15, 2002 morning in Locodjro, Abidjan - Ivory Coast)
[...] We should not commit the same mistakes that the Jews committed against the prophets and against the Lord. Today, the world has built a monument of John Wesley that they so persecuted and humiliated. John Wesley, this man was sincere. He was a deacon in 1725 but he was not converted. In 1737, returning to England after a mission to the United States, he said: "O God! I went to America in order to convert the Indians. But who will convert me?" At that time, he was loved and approved by everybody. But when on May 24, 1738, he received the real conversion to which I call the whole earth, he was no longer welcome on God's earth. Suddenly, the beloved son of the Anglican church became a subject of disappointment. John Wesley talking of one of those occasions when he escaped the fury of the people said:"Thinking that once I am knocked down, I will no longer be able to get up, several tried to throw me down while we were descending a hill on a slippery path in the direction of the city. But I didn’t flinch, nor slipped. Although several extended the hand to hold me by the collar or the clothes to overthrow me, they couldn’t do anything. There was not but one who could hold out the flap of my waistcoat, which soon remained in his hands, the other flap in which there was a bank note was only half torn. A stout man who was following me closely hit me several times from behind with a big stick of oak. ... Another approached through the crowd, and raising his arm to hit me, he suddenly pulled it down and touched my head saying only: "What a soft hair he has got!" They were both christians and non-christians. Last month, I had received a stone and two tonight. Two years ago a piece of brick brushed past the shoulder. Before that, I received a stone between the two eyes.
But like the branhamists, Methodists don’t know anything about Wesley. Pastor K. David, from the order of branhamists, at the death of Kacou Severin said: "A great man of God is gone". No one if he’s not misled cannot say that this highway seducer whose soul lies there in hell is a man of God. A seducer paid homage to a seducer. And these gurus of the race of shepherds who build their empire with the skin, flesh and bones of their sheep send hundreds of souls to hell. We know they are outdated and some levities of William Branham are unacceptable in the Church today! He would go and preach in the churches on the common points and fraternizing with them and at his home, a baptist pastor could dismiss the audience with exhortations and prayers. You see? It was not bad in the evening time but today I tell you that if you are christians then you have no right even to go and sit in a catholic, branhamists, baptist, Jehovah's witnesses worship or the vigils of those prophets. Those are the altars of all the abominations that God cannot let unpunished. Even if you're traveling, don’t go there! What will you seek among them? O Branhamists boneheaded, race of frogs! Alive, I will never cease to be for you what the lion is for breed of deer, dead, I shall not be less. You know that I am the cancer that will destroy you. The hour of God's judgment has come and you will not escape. The Word has tested everything and the Light made your actions known ... God is on the scene because we live in a time of great seduction, as in the world everybody wants to be presidents of the republic, in the church everyone has a ministry. Prophecies, dreams, visions come from all sides to distribute some. They extend the scope of activities of women to the pulpit. The name of Jesus is a basis of trade, prayer vigils are set each month’s end. People fallen from grace, who wait for hell. The son of demons! There are two things to do: Either you show that I am wrong and I join you or you publicly acknowledge your mistake and I dissolve your churches. I've always seen things this way. Three months after my conversion, I read the Bible entirely and they gave me responsibilities in the church, another ruse of Satan to bind people. I was the treasurer and I also conducted the prayers. But when I realized that the pastor wanted to administer us a Trinitarian baptism that is to say in the name of father, son and holy spirit, I refused and I gave him the documents and the moneyof his church. I stayed home for two weeks because I did not know that there was a church that baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
[...] The days when we sat in the temples to condemn is past! The evening time is past! And I do not want that cunning impostors, inspired by false revelations rub themselves against what God is doing. This is another ruse of Satan ... While Christians were preaching against catholicism, there raised some catholics like Francis Xavier, Ochino Bernardino, Jean Pierre Cafara ... who, while remaining catholics, preached from town to town against the catholic practices. They want to reform the catholic church, yet, when a church has fallen, God does not help her up anymore, otherwise Jesus would do it with the Pharisees and the Sadducees. It was a trap of Satan and in 1545, in agreement with the protestants, they held a council but at the appointed day, December 13, 1545, no protestant came. These same old demons are there today, others even reject the pastoral school, the entry into the councils and federations of churches ... but still remaining on the other side. We will never collaborate with you! The body of Christ is without grafting and his garment seamless. It's a trap of Satan, and anyone who supports these churches makes himself guilty and set himself up as an enemy of God.
Today, the demons that stood behind the catholic church are the same that stand behind those churches that you see. In a catholic bookstore, you'll see rosaries, candles, incense, crucifixes ...the demons that stand behind these things are exactly the same that stand behind all the other so-called christian bookstores. One is the image of the other but on the balance of Truth, the Bible is heavier than all the books in those bookstores gathered together. The same demons that stand behind a catholic radio station are the same demons that stand behind the evangelical radio stations. The evangelical versions are the image of catholic Bibles. You see the bait but the prophet sees the hook. They seem righteous but it is nothing other than the sewers of all kinds of impurities. You see? Each time, the same horn of the first is pulled up and given to its image but an extension of life is granted to it...
Before beginning this sermon, I want to clarify that there has been a time of the evening. When you take one day a tape of William Branham, you will hear: "Editions of the Evening Light are pleased to present you: William Marrion Branham ..." or then: "Zechariah 14:7 says that there will be light in the evening time ..."And Mark 13:35 reveals that there is the evening time, time of midnight, the time of the cock crow and the morning with Elijah and Moses. That’s what the Bible says.
Let’s take now the text of Matth.25:5-6 and let’s read this: " Now the bridegroom tarrying, they all grew heavy and slept. But in [the] middle of [the] night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom; go forth to meet him."
It is not "we cried" But "there was a cry"or: a cry sounded. I like the word "sounded" as in Joshua 6, but "there was a cry" is entirely correct.
Know that the time has come when the churches and the jurisdictions of the earth will join their efforts together against the Saints. But before that, according to Rev.12:14, God will give his two wings to the small eagles that we are. But everything started from Matth.25:6. A powerful cry made itself heard and the voice of the cry was so powerful that, in 1 Thess.4: 16, the apostle Paul compared it with that of an archangel. You see? That voice was so powerful that it shook the earth and all the sleeping virgins woke up. You see? It was more powerful than any rumble of thunder. The cry was so loud that they heard the voice from very very very far, among the baptists. They heard it among the branhamists. They heard it among the pentecostals. They heard it in evangelical churches, in the missions and ministries. They heard it in the United States. They heard it in Canada. They heard it in Peru. They heard it in Ireland. They heard it in Zaire. They heard it in Asia. And the voice cried: "Behold, the bridegroom; go forth to meet him". It is the Spirit of Elijah. In the beginning, John the Baptist said:"Behold the Lamb ... "Because He came for the redemption, the sacrifice. And for a time, John the Baptist was the high priest God was the Lamb of sacrifice. Do you know that the high priest wears the golden belt around the kidney and that gold is the symbol of divinity? [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]. And Jesus acknowledged to John this position saying that among all those born of women, because of this act, John the Baptist was the greatest. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
And at the end, the same man, the same ministry and the same Spirit of Elijah says at midnight "Behold, the Bridegroom... "For, Jesus Christ is coming to take his bride. Now, notice that two ministries are found here. ["Behold, the Bridegroom" applies to the time of the evening and to midnight].The branhamists are in the evening time introducing the Bridegroom while it is midnight and the Cry has another scope. Their preaching is that of Numbers 13:32-34. Yet so far, to preach the message of Luther or Wesley or William Branham in all their purity is senseless. It is the spirit of frog...
Well! In Mal.4: 6, the one who turns the heart of the fathers to the children is different from him who turns the heart of the children to the fathers. But it is the same Spirit and the same ministry. Moses ascended the Mount Nebo and said: ''Behold Canaan ...’’ but it’s the prophet Joshua who gave the order to move out ... It’s not Moses who told him how the walls of Jericho would fall. It’s not Moses who told how they would go across the Jordan. It’s not Moses who told him how he would stop the sun ... It’s a major prophet having the seal of Thus saith the Lord. However it was still the age and the spirit of Moses. And there was a fight, that’s why in the vision, the military cargo was got out of the depths of the waters! Moses and the prophet Joshua! Elijah and the prophet Elisha! William Branham and the messenger of Matth.25:6.
Now follow this very well ... In 1 Kings 19, God gave Elijah the order to anoint Elisha, Hazael and Jehu but Elijah was no longer there when Hazael became king and it's a little unknown prophet who anointed Jehu king over Israel. But it was still the age of Elijah. You see? God was speaking to Elisha and to the young prophet who was at that time in the loins of Elijah. And in view of my modest life, I could believe that when God said to William Branham: "Do not drink, do not smoke, do not defile your body with women" I was in his loins.
The Bible says that Levi paid the tithe to Melchizedek in Genesis 14, yet, in those days, his father Jacob and his grandfather Isaac were not even born yet. But it is his great-grandfather Abraham who did it and that was imputed to him. You see? ... The voice that says "Behold the Bridegroom” is also, somewhat different from the one that says "go forth to meet him". It's the same voice but it's time that changes. It's different and it is the exact truth. And you know very well that this way of calling and of commissioning is not for nothing. Why not overcome therefore the pride and approach to see what it is exactly? Jews persecuted, stoned, killed all the prophets then killed the Lord Himself. And what if the Roman and the catholics had showed restraint and humility? Has God once sent something on earth which has agreed with what people are doing? And the common crime of true prophets is to say to the world what God gave them. You see, God has aroused us to tell the truth, we will do it and we'll go to the end because our blood is not more precious than that of our fathers the prophets, the apostles and the saints that their fathers killed. It is a narrow gate and a tough path, many people passed by it and we will pass by it. Don’t fear anything! Angels are here ascending and descending. We are more numerous than them and the Lord Himself will stand behind their sword to receive our souls. "Heroes of the Faith, like Wesley, we will win, if I am preaching an imagination to you, may my soul leave me because I speak in the name of the Lord. The Word comes to the prophet-messenger who brings the judgments of God on earth. He alone has the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Matth.25: 6, like Rebecca, we will go forth, He will come to meet us and we will recognize Him but we will have already left the camel, the message of the prophet Eliezer. Amen! You see? His brother, those same preachers will try to stop her. You see? We're in another epoch of Christianity, and it is in the midst of this revival that the rapture will take place. And it’s here the voice that says: "Behold, the Bridegroom; go forth to meet him!" Let Esther and the virgins go out now! There has been a great revival followed by a long persecution under the catholic Rome and after the time and message of the evening, the last revival will come under their image. The churches, missions and ministries will raise the waters: the crowds, the courts, the police, the governments, the NGOs, any jurisdiction of the world against the saints as we see it in Rev.12. But nothing will be able to stop this conqueror Church whose ardor and zeal are not from this world. An indomitable Church against the fury and the assault and the humiliation and the mockery, going from place to place, preaching, defying publicly. Brothers, it will be the crowning achievement of all preaching since ancient times. Our zeal will meet the persecution that will not be able to weaken us and then a higher power will descend upon us. The dead will resuscitate and appear to a lot of us with the angels. We will vanish to appear in other places, we will talk and things will come into existence. We will walk upon the waters but not in spectacular way. We will be scattered by here and there, because there will be a manhunt. This is where those of Matth.22:12 will get in, too. It’s only in the persecution that the spiritually poor, the lame, the crippled and blind of this parable get in. This is where those of Matth.22:12 who, in normal time have rejected the Midnight Cry suddenly join us.
So don’t be distracted by the revelations of John Schwab and Rick Joyner. Burn them all! The phenomenon will be global, the rapture will take place in those moments whereas the persecution will continue against those who have not been enraptured but who stay in the same faith and the same perseverance. After that, five years, twenty years or more, two young preachers will appear in Israel, who will bring the same preaching of judgment. They will preach against those Jewish seducers who have not yet finished with the Palestinians and who also want to seduce the nations in the name of Him whom their fathers crucified. They fraternize with those whom the message condemns…they invite one another ... but the two witnesses will preach against them and against the Jewish religious and political systems...
The Bible says in Rev.10:1-2 that this manifestation of the Word will come to the nations by the Lord before going to Israel by the two witnesses of Revelation .11:3. This is exactly the same Spirit, the same preaching that will go to Israel and the same adversaries will stand there to fight them. After the rapture, the churches, the prophets and the inhabitants of the earth will be subjected to terrible torments because of the blood of saints and that, during the ministry of Elijah and Moses. Wars, uprisings, terrible diseases and natural phenomena will hug it tightly from everywhere. In a little while, AIDS will be preferable to illnesses to come. He that hath ears to hear let him hear for the God of the spirits of the prophets speaks.
Matth.25:6 ... we are already living the most important phase of the last revival of the Church because the revival consists first in Word then the signs come to confirm the Word. We're hearing what the cry of midnight said. It’s this cry that the elect were expecting. And you know the baseness of my school level. Suddenly, a bushman ... I took a car for the first time at nine years old, a cocoa collecting truck and I was saying that the trees were fleeing behind us ... I do not know what we call an essay, philosophy or antithesis. You see? It’s because He can take what is nothing to make something that He is God. However, no doctor in theology, no president of church cannot resist to us on the basis of the Word. We challenge and condemn them all unreservedly, those sorcerers in sheep's coat...
Well, Matth.25: 6. Why is it a matter of few oil and lots of oil? Be attentive because this is a particular revelation of Jesus Christ. Don’t you see two groups in this ministry? Yes! When the Lord was on the earths, who were the foolish virgins? The Pharisees? No! Let’s read Matth.13:10-12 ... " And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables? And he answering said to them, Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given; for whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall be caused to be in abundance; but he who has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him". Amen! Amen! Many sincerely believe what I do and receive with joy the sermons because that fits with their vision and understanding of things. They are the heart and mind with us ... But note that both groups accept the same cry which is this Message, come, are together in the same assembly. The Message is the lamp. Both groups are therefore sitting here. We even have the holy communion together but the works of the foolish do not reach that of the prudent. There is in third place here, the group of bunches and that is also contained in the verses 14 and 15. And there is the other group of foolish virgins who is not sitting here, like Nicodemus. It's true! They will nonetheless be saved because the Lord did not say "I've never known you" But he said: for now, I do not know you. There is no correlation between Matth.7: 23 and Matth.25: 12 as shown by Louis Segond. When I say that the bible Louis Segond is the image of Tob, I say it in the name the Lord because Matth.25: 6 is the voice of God for this generation.
While I’m speaking, the Holy Spirit is coordinating that everywhere in the world. The Word-Bride will prophesy on some churches, peoples, nations, languages according to Rev.10:11. Preach against all without exception. Do not fear anyone. William Branham is an angel of God but the branhamists have been aroused by Satan to pervert the ways of Truth. Condemn them! They are pagans. A pastor branhamist is as empty as a catholic priest. He cannot chase a demon away. Preach, condemn, challenge, refute! Don’t submit to any law, we have no law but the Bible that they don’t respect. Preach especially in front of churches, nail sermons on their doors, they are mystical lodges. Burn publicly their books. Yes, the whole world will see a different breed of crazy men. Be harder, more severe than I! Do everything by the authority and order of Jesus Christ. You are under the authority of God and on God's earth. It’s not them who appointed you to preach and it’s not them who will forbid it to you. And know that you’ll have three fronts: the enemy from outside and the enemy from inside who is the most dangerous. That’s why firmness must be in camp. For example, if a baptized person betrays the faith in the persecution, he will not be readmitted to the assembly, whatever the reason. Condemn any word that might confuse you (Matth.16:22-23). Do you see the madness of the five virgins? Instead of coming and sit and make sure to receive every word, they are out ... or sitting here, they walk not by faith but by their wisdom and intelligence. And you see that in the vision, I stood on top of the pyramid of the seven ages of the Church. The third front will be harder because, just as the angels of God will descend, angels of Satan will also descend but we will defeat them by the Word as in Matth.4:1-10. That is why we are the Word-Bride. These sermons, this cry, wake and get the ten virgins ready before the old cargo of persecution comes out of the waters... This is not a trumpet, it’s a cry ... This does not happen in the evening time but at midnight. No clear revelation has been given before by men of God because that did not concern them. But now you know it. May God bless you! [Ed: The congregation sings: "I have heard of a Message ..."].
I have heard of a glorious Message,
From a faithful treasure to my soul;
The birthplace of Jesus, where we do not die,
Yonder we will never grow old;
No more [old age] * (2x)
Yonder we will never grow old.
* [suffering, disease ...]
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